Tagline
His utopia doesn't end at making clothes.
PHANTOM RANCH MARKET is a remake/upcycling project developed by Kozaburo Akasaka of KOZABURO, using collected items such as secondhand clothing. Launched in 2020 at New York SSSSS, it sets out to re-edit, through handcraft, a worldview of an “ideal utopia” accompanied by time and space.
Concept
Time and space exist there, accompanied by personal elements to enrich the worldview. Used clothes, old books, candles and cacti that he has collected as a collector. Rough and precise handcrafts such as staples create a new attitude by pouring the raw spirit of the moment. There, the line is blurred - between virtual space, with its ability to expand the freedom of people in their daily lives, and the real world, where at times we are faced with cruel situations. Phantom Ranch Market seeks to make people aware that the individual and the world are connected like the spreading of the ocean without limiting the expression method. In other words, it's a primitive activity.